“The decrease in the cost of storage has enabled an exponential distribution of data collection, but the ability to analyze this quantity of data is the center of gravity for ‘big data’ in health care,” the NIH report said.
Let’s be honest: terms like “data analytics” tend to make many people’s eyes glaze over. The idea of number-crunching health care data sounds like a good way to improve benefit plans, but it also sounds like a complex subject—and it is.
